Clothes-hook.



G- WINDLE.

CLOTHES HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 29. I917- Patented Mar. 26, 1918.

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' GLEN WINDLE, OF CHARDON, KANSAS J CLOTHES-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 26, 1918.

Y App 1icationfi1edMay29, 1917. Serial No. 171,?72.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GLEN WINDnn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chardon, in the county of Rawlins and State of Kansas, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in GIOthBSrI'IOOkS, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to supports, and more especially to claspinghooks; and the object of-the same isto produce a support of thischaracter by means of which articles of clothing and thelike may besustained in such manner that they cannot be accidentally dislodgedfromthe hook and thrown to the door, as is so often the case withclothes hooks which are put up in crowded places. 1

This object is carried out by constructing the hook with guard whichnormally lies across its throat and'is held inactive positionjbytheweight of the clothing or other garment hung onthe hook. Detalls oftwo types ofthis inventioi'i are set forth in the followingspecification and shown. in the ac comp'anying drawings; wherein Figure1 is a perspective view of one with a garment hung thereon.

Fig. 2 is'a side elevation of this type of ny invention, showingitsparts in full lines with the hook dropped and the guard raised to opencondition, and in dotted lines as moved past what 1 cm a toward itsclosed position. Fig. is a side elevation of another type of this hook,showing its parts as closed, and

Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line 4P4 of Fig. 3.

Either type of my hook includes a base mounted on an upright supportwhich in the present case is-the wall N. This base may be secured to thewall in any appropriate manner, and it may be in one piece or two piecesso long as it provides two bearugs 1 and 2 whlch 1n Flg. 4 are shown asparts of a plate'3 standing upright and attached to the wallW byfastening means 'SllCl1 as screws'l. However, these bearings might betwo separate elements screwed into or attached tothe wall W in anyappropriate manner. Collectively they make up the base member. p i

Mounted in the upper bearing is a guard 5 which as shown in the drawingsis made of a single piece of wirebent into appro- 'priate shape, andpreferably having subdead-center stantially parallel side arms, in eachof which is formed an eye 6. These arms are connected at their outerends, and in Fig. a they are shown as upturned into a supplemental hookT which will be described be- Mounted in the lower bearing :2 is a loop10 which is substantially rectangular, and this also maybe made of asingle piece of wire bent into approximately square form as shown. i e

The hook is also shown as made of a single piece of wire bentinto-parallelarms integrally connected at their outer ends, and theshank ll of this hook is turned upward atright angles at its inner end,the arms of the shank having eyes 16 at the angles in which the outercross bar of the loop is piv oted. Above these eyes the arms of theshank rise in substantial parallelism with the base plate on the face ofthe wall, and at their upper ends they are turned inward. toward eachother and pivotally mounted in the eyes 6 asshown. The outer or forwardend of the hook-shank is turned upward into a bill l gend the bill issodisposed that the guard comes down over its tip when there is a load onthe hook as indicated at L in Fig.

1. Over the working parts of the hook and the guard may be coiled finewire as indicated at 20, in order to prevent articles of clothing fromslipping ofi? these members when placed thereon. The wire may be of anysuitable gage, and in fact I do not wish to be limited tocthe use ofwire, as the elements of this device may be of other material, perhapscastings. Where the parts are pivoted in the eyes,- or where the membersare journaled in the bearings they may be surrounded by sleeves toreduce friction, but this detail has not been illustrated as it forms nopart of the present invention.

With the parts of my invention standing in full lines as seen in Fig. 2,the pivot at the outer end of the loop in the eyes 16 has passed a deadcenterpoint, that is, it has passed a straight line between the eyes 6and the lowerbearing 2', and this intermediate pivot now rests againstthe base plate. Therefore the parts will remain in this position, eventhough a garment be hung on the bill of the hook. When now it is desiredto usethe device, the garment is placed on said bill and then drawnforward a little. This moves the pivots in the eyes 16 to the dottedposition in the same view, where- .it has of similar nature.

passed the dead-center and now by moving the outer end of the guarddownward until it'contacts with the upwardly moving tip of the bill ofthe hook, the parts assume the position shown in Fig. 1 and the ment isreliably held on the hook by means of the guard and can not be removedtherefrom by accident. Hence it is not likely to be brushed olit'thehookby persons who may pass the same in aisles or other places wheregarments are stored. To remove it, it is necessary to raise the guard,and'thiscauses the automatic descent of the hook which is assisted bythe weight of the garment itself. lontinued rise '01" the guard finallybriilgs the parts to the dotted positionin Fig. 2, audeventually pastthe dead center and to the full-lined position, when the garment may beremoved and the fastening hook will stand in this position untilusedagain.

The other type of my invention illustrated in Figs. 3 and i is almostidentically the same excepting that the'forward end of the guard-is hereturned into a supplemental hook or bill which rises from the body of theguard in a plane beyondthe bill of the main hook. The result is that an"article of cloth ing such as a coat may be hung on the main hook, andsubsequently" another articlc'of clothing such as a hat may be hung onthe supplemental book. My invention will commend itself to those who arefitting out rooms where large numbers of garments have on occasions tobe stored, such, for in stance, as hallways, dressing rooms, and racksin hotels, dance halls, and other places I have abstained from givingdetails as to proportions and materialsof parts, as they are notessential.

What is claimed as new is g l. Ina clasping hook, the combination with abase plate secured to an upright supportand having two bearings, and aguard mounted at its inner end in the upper bearing Mid having eyesadjacent said end; of

a hook having a right-angular shank whose inner end is pivotally mountedin said eyes, 7

whose angle carries a pair of eyes, and whose bill s upturned, and aloop mounted in the lower bearing of the [base plate and in the posed ofsubstantially parallel arms bent-at their angles into eyes in which theouter end of said 1001) is mounted their eXtremi-.

ties being turned inward and mounted in the eyes of the guard, the outerend of said arms being integrally united in a hook-bill over which'theguard'is adapted to lie, the eyes in the angles of saidshank'beingadapted to" pass a straight line between the lower bearingand-the eyesin the guard, for the purpose set forth. j

In testimony whereof I allix my signature.

GLEN W DLE."

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